COMAH

Can you determine the ‘extent and severity’ from the major hazards on your site?

Could you demonstrate that the risks from your major accident hazards are ALARP?

Can you identify and assess all your major accidents to the environment (MATTEs)?

Don’t worry if you can’t because we have extensive experience in this area, having prepared safety reports for a significant number of the UK's top tier installations. Assignments have covered a wide range of sectors including chemical manufacturing sites, warehouses and tank farm installations, etc.

We can:

• > Determine if COMAH applies to your site
• > Prepare a MAPP for a lower tier COMAH site
• > Prepare a complete top tier safety report
• > Review an existing safety report and revise it if necessary
• > Carry out HAZID exercises to identify all potential major accident hazards on site
• > Determine the proportionality of your site and carry out qualitative, semi-quantitative or
     quantitative risk assessments as appropriate
• > Carry out consequence modelling of the various hazards
• > Carry out environmental assessments and MATTE reviews
• > Develop on-site emergency plans
• > Carry out cost benefit analyses for additional potential risk reduction measures
• > Ensure that adequate safety and reliability have been incorporated into the design,
     construction, operation and maintenance of plant
• > Assess your safety management system, especially the process safety management system,
     by auditing.

We can provide templates, management services, guidance and peer review services to help you write your own safety report. Alternatively, we can prepare it, committing as little client resource as practicable.

New Entrants to COMAH

Recent changes to Seveso II and the CHIP Regulations have meant that many more installations now fall under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations.

The main aim of the Regulations is to prevent and mitigate the effects of major accidents involving dangerous substances, which can cause serious damage/harm to people and/or the environment - they treat risks to the environment as seriously as those to people.

HFL Risk Services has considerable experience in this area, having prepared a large number of COMAH Safety Reports for top tier installations.

COMAH Reviews

Regulation 8 of the COMAH Regulations requires operators of top tier sites to review and revise their Safety Reports as changes occur on site, or at least every 5 years, to keep them up to date.

HFL Risk Services can again boast significant experience in this area; many of our initial submissions have now been through reviews either as a result of changes to plant or the 5-year deadline.

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